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And judging by the lustrousness of your locks, you clearly know your hair products.
The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z Phoebe McPhee 2002
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And judging by the lustrousness of your locks, you clearly know your hair products.
The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z Phoebe McPhee 2002
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And judging by the lustrousness of your locks, you clearly know your hair products.
The Alphabetical Hookup List R-Z Phoebe McPhee 2002
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Above him is that pure golden canopy with its rare glimmering lustrousness -- something like the soft, dewy effulgence that comes with sun-breaks through showery afternoons.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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This chain was very broad, of a style known as the brick-work, but every brick was a tiny gem, set in a delicate filigree linked with the next, and the whole rainbowed lustrousness moving at your will, like the scales of some gorgeous
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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She could see him, bearded and with gold rings in his ears and the lustrousness of fever in his eyes, captaining with oaths and the rattle of arms a boat rowed by naked Indians along a yellow waterway between green cliffs of foliage.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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The glazes and colors, the lustrousness, the almost iridescent shadings place this ware very high in the history of modern production.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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It is a crown of 'glory,' and that means a lustrousness of character imparted by radiation and reflection from the central light of the glory of God.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868
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This chain was very broad, of a style known as the brick-work, but every brick was a tiny gem, set in a delicate filigree linked with the next, and the whole rainbowed lustrousness moving at your will, like the scales of some gorgeous Egyptian serpent; -- the solicitor was to take this also to the jeweller.
In a Cellar 1859
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That ought to be enough for one movie, and there’s more: handsome settings (the City of Light regaining its prewar lustrousness), midlife romance (Stanley Tucci is Julia’s charmingly ardent husband, Paul) and foodie porn (brie, chocolate cream pie and beurre blanc sauce in lascivious close-ups).
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